Securing home Wi-Fi remains uncertain when it comes to law. Some urge users are not liable when they use default security settings and it is manufacturer who is guilty when/if wireless network was ‘successfully’ abused. Others put whole responsibility on users. This is practically a question to law and usually its resolution depends on lawyers’ skills to gather and manipulate the details. Your security encompasses not only security against the law when you happen to fall a victim to an intruder, but also protection against that very intruder. In the long run, it’s up to you whether to endeavor to prove your innocence or take measures to build a reliable fence.

If we turn to corporate wireless security, this fence is a must, as it is public data and corporate confidential information that are at risk. Unfortunately, AirTight study shows that 57% of surveyed companies from 6 US districts and London still have to sort out their priorities in terms of data security. In my opinion, if protecting home wireless network can be a dark horse requiring scrupulous examination, nonexistence of corporate wireless security should have relevant decision in court.

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The only our product that works with ATI cards (right now) is Wireless Security Auditor, but interesting news anyway: ATI Radeon HD 4770 Info Leaked. I’ll second the editor’s opinion that it will make a good competition to NVIDIA’a 9800GT (of course, supported by EWSA, too).

Technically, Quadro FX 4800 is very similar to GeForce GTX 280. But have a look at the Performance Comparison. On some tests, Quadro is up to 10 times faster than GeForce. Yes, almost the same GPU. Yes, same version of drivers. Amazing. Just note that the retail price on FX 4800 is in $1600-$2000 range. But if it can do password cracking at much higher rate than GeForce (again, we never tried it, sorry), it looks like a good investment.

In case if you missed it: new ATI Catalyst drivers (9.4) now available (you can read the release notes for details). For some reason, some driver files have been renamed (well, not in 9.4, but in 9.3 released a bit earlier, though that version was really buggy and we cannot recommend to use it anyway), and our WPA password recovery (audit) software was not able to recognize Radeon cards anymore.

In the meantime, NVIDIA CUDA 2.2 (beta) released. Does that actually matter? Yes, because NVIDIA Tesla C1060 and S1070 are now officially supported on Windows. Besides, we need to have a look at Zero-copy support for direct access to system memory, because it may speed-up the GPU-enabled password cracking on some particular algorithms.